You can blame HTC and Verizon for that and not Android.

My wife has the same phone. MISERABLE battery life.

Last weekend I rooted it and tossed Cyanogenmod7 on it, which is about as vanilla a rom as you can get.
Her battery life has improved drastically. From dying around noon every day, to having 70% battery life left at dinner time.

Its because Verizon just loves to load your phone up with useless crap. Same reason Windows used to come preinstalled with MSN, AOL, etc.

For the last 2 years I've been using a WD-Live.

It connects to my home network, then I run a program called "PlayOn" on my PC. This shows up as a upnp server on the WD Live, and lets me watch Hulu, CBS, netflix, Amazon VOD, MTV, and a crap ton of other networks for free. I think playon costs like $20 a year.

The WD-Live will also play .mkv and .avi files up to 1080p off network shares.

Worse is O'Reilly auto parts. They want your name, address and phone number.
They told me it was for "warranty information". I was buying a quart of oil.

I walked out and went and bought it at Walmart instead.

This reminds me a lot of that Corey Docterow novel about the kid who was blamed for being a terrorist in San Francisco.
Used TOR and xboxs to make an ad-hoc network. Was actually a bit of an interesting read, although a bit worded for younger people.

I can tell you exactly what I would have told someone if they told me my computer use bothered them. And it wouldn't have been nice.

I know I surfed through a lot of boring lectures. Probably shouldn't have done it, but it was mostly either filler classes, or classes I cared nothing about. Do wish I would have paid a bit more attention on the class on regexs.

My microsoft natural keyboard (hey, I have carpal tunnel) had the "n" key quit working. I took it apart and cleaned it out, but it stayed dead.

Called them last week, and after getting the run around for about half an hour (Took forever to find where to find the warranty info online, then had to punch in S/N, then got an 800 number to call, which directed me to another 800 number) I finally talked to someone. They replaced it free of charge, and I didn't even have to send the broken one back in.

I guess this story would make more sense if I said it was my dad who ran the other side of the business (labor / running the equipment). So when they divorced, the business was dissolved.

My mom ran a very profitable business for about 20 years, from before I was born until I was 16 or so.

When I was 16 my parents got a divorce, long story short, my dad was to blame.

She had a hell of a time finding a new job, because the only job she'd ever had since highschool was as the office manager for her own business. At times they'd had up to 10 employees, she did all the payroll, bid on jobs, everything on the office with the help of one secretary, etc etc.

No one wants to hire someone when they can't verify their employment. She finally found a job (which was was laid off from 2 years ago) as a phone answerer / secretary for a small business. Took her forever to even find that.

I've played around with Quake Live now and then.

Its crazy buggy and the java in it slows my computer to a crawl. I have a fairly modern machine, and Quake 3 was making it bog down. Seriously?

Not only that, but I wanted to play with a friend of mine who lives about 100 miles away. Neither of us could figure out how to start a game that was just private for the two of us.

Yes, I feel like I got my moneys worth. The degree took 10 classes to complete (33 semester hours), and each class cost about $2,220. So $22k total. My work picked up about $15k worth, so it really didn't cost me all that much. The loans are lumped in with about 60k in undergrad student loans, and they all go to into repayment here in a few months. It works out to about $350 a month.

I chose walden because I liked the sound of the Information Systems Management degree, thats essentially the job I want to try to go into. I have a bachelors in programming, but I'm really not a great programmer. I figured this out too late to change degrees without being in debt up to my eyeballs and another 3 years in school. I enjoy technology, I just get bored and frustrated with programming.

I also like Walden because its not as well known. It only comes up that I went to school online when people notice dates don't match up. IE, in an interview it was noticed I went to school in Baltimore (where walden is located) while living in Ohio. A simple explanation of (oh, the school offered that degree online) was all that it took.